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I believe the composers used Impulse Tracker to write the music.

@@ripace554 thanks, I downloaded it.

This isn't his battle theme. The speeds fine for what it is

he's awesome!!! love jazz jackrabbit 2 so i had to come check this out

@@zacharydetrick7428 Don't forget Deus Ex 1 ;D

The quality of this is far beyond than any soundtrack that came in the last 15 years of gaming

best i can do is 0.75x

@@biga6664 at the playback speed there is a 'custom' option in the top-right where you can set it to 0.85. I agree 0.85 is perfect. This version is so great I wish it weren't so rushed.

@@AASlayden I had never before noticed the custom option, thank you for sharing

Never played the game: this music unironically reminds me of the Joker (DC comics).

Kefka is basically Final Fantasy's version of Joker.

Uhh no he's not. Outside both being clowns, their characters aren't even close

♥ PERFECTION!

Play it at .75 speed 4 years ago person..

@@alexmartin3143thanks 4 years from now person!

Lmao

@@drewtoli2353 What in the Attack on Titan?

@@thienphucn1🤫🤫🤫🤫 I'm the coordinate attack titan

Hi, first of all thanks for taking the time to make such a long comment with some constructive remarks. To answer your points: - Reverb - yes, I think I agree with you on this one. I did the rip and editing of this soundtrack about 14 years ago (hard to believe it was so long ago!) and I added the reverb a couple of years ago as an experiment to see how the soundtrack sounded with a bit more ‘wetness’. I was never quite sure about it and I think you’ve confirmed my doubts. I still have the original version of my edits without the reverb and I think I’ll maybe upload those and take the reverb ones down. I think it’s more lack of views that’s my problem than lack of likes though - I think most of the views on this were me listening to it while I was working :-) Sound quality - again I agree. I uploaded this before I’d got properly to grips with KZbin and video formats. Again, if I re-upload I’ll go for the HD formats. Long fades - I agree with you that the long fade has died a death somewhat these days, no doubt going the same way as dynamic range as music producers cater to the perceived needs of the iPod generation, who apparently want to deafen themselves with brickwalled remasters with the volume cranked up to 12. Personally (though I love a good segue when it’s used appropriately) I love a long fade (as you can tell) and think they can be very dramatic when used well, especially on soundtracks. As to the length of the fades, I guess that’s down to personal taste. Personally I think they’re okay on this. It seems daft after a ten minute epic like ISV-KRAN to fade out in five seconds. ISV-KRAN has by far the longest fade, but this was a deliberate choice, reflecting the epic battle through the spaceship, wondering if you’ll ever actually get out of there… I actually think the long fades help the continuity, giving the impression of leaving one area and entering another. I try to place fades on something interesting wherever possible, so even as it’s fading out you’re wanting to listen to what’s there… like the end to Bluff Eversmoking. Which I think works very well. And which leads me onto… Sub-songs out of order - yes, some of them are, and deliberately so. I placed them in the order that I felt made best musical sense rather than slavishly following the game, though I did follow the level order overall. I wanted to create a stand-alone listening experience that was faithful to the game but also worked by itself, even to listeners who have never played the game. To this end I wanted to a) include as much of the music from the game as possible (including hidden tracks that I’m not sure were even used in the game - like the long middle bit on ‘Foundry’) and b) I wanted to combine different sub-songs into one representative composition wherever possible. I’m not the first person to take this approach with a game soundtrack - there’s many a soundtrack I’ve listened to where tracks are completely out of narrative order because the composer/editor wanted to present them in a way that they felt made the most musical impact rather than just following the game. I think this is a perfectly valid approach. Many game soundtracks are too slavish to the original I think. I love game music, but sometimes in a soundtrack CD/MP3 format, even the best game soundtrack can fall a little flat - for example, just taking the ‘play the loop twice then fade out’ approach, or alternatively being made up of dozens of really short tracks which are hard to get your teeth into. Personally, I prefer to mix things up a little, while being as faithful as possible to the original. My approach will change depending on the nature of the game and the soundtrack though. I think it should be remembered that listening to the music in-game and listening to it by itself are two very different things. I am aware though that the approach I’ve taken here may offend some purists who just want to listen to the music exactly as it is in the game. The slowed segment in the middle of Terraniux - yes, again a completely deliberate artistic choice. I needed something to smoothly glue the two disparate sections of the Terraniux music together into one piece, and stumbled across this bit hidden in the .mod file. It was short and not particularly interesting, and as I kept playing it back, sometimes for some unknown reason it would come out at half speed. So I ripped it at the slower speed and tried splicing it in with a slight fade towards the end, and it worked perfectly. I thought it sounded great 14 years ago and I still think it sounds great now. Sometimes when you’re doing creative things you have to be open to serendipity. Fading tracks when they’re ‘high’ - many of the tracks I have done this, some I haven’t. I like to keep variety to keep it interesting. Many of the tracks start with the ‘atmospheric bit’ and then cut into the ‘action bit’, and I simply fade them away at the end, leaving as much of the original composition as possible. Sometimes fading on the 'high' bit feels like leaving a scene half-way through. Terraniux is a very high energy track, so I think it works that the Harobed Confrontation music lulls slightly before going into it. The contrast creates dramatic impetus and pacing, and echoes what happens in the game. As to the other things you mention, problems with converting the sound, panning etc I’m not really sure what’s going on there. See if the same problems persist when I upload the version without the reverb. It sounds fine to me, as do the original .wav files I have. Anyway, thanks again for your comments, I’m always open to having a constructive discussion. I have quite a few game soundtracks that I’ve edited to upload when I have the time, so watch this space. Let me know when you upload your version of the Unreal soundtrack, as I’d be interested to have a listen. Cheers.

+Leon McInnes Thanks for your interest. I used the free sequencer given away with Computer Music magazine. Eventually I'll get something more 'professional' but in some ways I quite like using relatively 'limited' software because I feel it forces you to be more creative and inventive. Once I'd ripped all the samples I assembled them into loops in a wave editor and then pieced it all together in the sequencer. Rather than use plug-in effects I did effects by layering sounds, tracker-style to keep the sound authentic. There's a lot of layering of sounds to give more punch as well. The bass is doubled up to really make it pulse, for example. The main drum loop is actually sampled from the Nation 12 original from their album (they were kind enough to leave a clean loop of it in the track!) and I used a plug-in drum module to add extra percussion towards the end, and a bit of filtering here and there as well. I kept to the original game theme arrangement as closely as possible but decided on a whim to slightly extend the last part to build it up a bit more before the outro. Very pleased that everyone seems to be enjoying the results! My plan now is to work through the other Bitmap Brothers themes and put together a Bitmap Brothers album, just for fun and non-profit of course. I always have a lot of different projects on the go and have a bad habit of jumping back and forth between them, but I'll maybe bump this up my priority list :-)

Kuokka77 Hi, thanks for the feedback/encouragement! I was planning on having a go at the Speedball 2 theme next (think I might work my way through the Bitmap Brothers games). Watch this space! :-)

Ripace still watching.